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The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords (2021)
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Eerola, T., & Lahdelma, I. (2021). The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords. Music & Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211030471

Acoustic and musical components of consonance and dissonance perception have been recently identified. This study expands the range of predictors of consonance and dissonance by three analytical operations. In Experiment 1, we identify the underlying... Read More about The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords.

Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music (2021)
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Taruffi, L., Skouras, S., Pehrs, C., & Koelsch, S. (2021). Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(1), 231-241. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00861-x

Individuals with a predisposition to empathize engage with sad music in a compelling way, experiencing overall more pleasurable emotions. However, the neural mechanisms underlying these music-related experiences in empathic individuals are unknown. T... Read More about Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music.

Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music (2021)
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Athanasopoulos, G., Eerola, T., Lahdelma, I., & Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M. (2021). Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music. PLoS ONE, 16(1), Article e0244964. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244964

Previous research conducted on the cross-cultural perception of music and its emotional content has established that emotions can be communicated across cultures at least on a rudimentary level. Here, we report a cross-cultural study with participant... Read More about Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music.

Multimodal perception of interpersonal synchrony: Evidence from global and continuous ratings of improvised musical duo performances (2020)
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Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Blackwood Ximenes, A., Ma, W., Clayton, M., & Keller, P. (2020). Multimodal perception of interpersonal synchrony: Evidence from global and continuous ratings of improvised musical duo performances. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, 30(4), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000264

Investigating cues that underpin perceptual judgments of interpersonal coordination has important implications for understanding sociocognitive evaluations of the quality of human interactions. With a focus on musical interpersonal coordination, we c... Read More about Multimodal perception of interpersonal synchrony: Evidence from global and continuous ratings of improvised musical duo performances.

Composition in the Age of AI (2020)
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Collins, N. (online). Composition in the Age of AI. Ideas Sónicas/Sonic Ideas,

This article considers the plight of the contemporary composer, and various options they have to engage with AI beyond simply sticking their head in the sand, from writing software to deliberate subversion of corpora and moving social goalposts. If c... Read More about Composition in the Age of AI.

‘An Art That Reaches Beyond the World’: Sir Arthur Bliss and Music as Spirituality (2020)
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McCullough, M. (2022). ‘An Art That Reaches Beyond the World’: Sir Arthur Bliss and Music as Spirituality. Religions, 13(12), Article 1186. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121186

Throughout his life, British composer Sir Arthur Bliss (1891–1975) placed great importance on the value of music. He saw it as something that could bring peace and healing and as an ‘art that reaches beyond the world.’ In his artistic creed, set out... Read More about ‘An Art That Reaches Beyond the World’: Sir Arthur Bliss and Music as Spirituality.

Interpersonal entrainment in music performance: Theory, method and model (2020)
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Clayton, M., Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Keller, P., Camurri, A., Volpe, G., & Alborno, P. (2020). Interpersonal entrainment in music performance: Theory, method and model. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 38(2), 136-194. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2020.38.2.136

Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music’s social functions of promoting group bonding and cohesion. Mechanisms other than sensorim... Read More about Interpersonal entrainment in music performance: Theory, method and model.

The Examiner and the Evangelist: Authorities of Music and Empire, c.1894 (2020)
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Johnson-Williams, E. (2020). The Examiner and the Evangelist: Authorities of Music and Empire, c.1894. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 145(2), 317-350. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2020.16

In the 1890s, two musicians travelled between Britain and South Africa. One was the first examiner to travel abroad to examine for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Franklin Taylor. At the same time as Taylor’s arrival in the Cape i... Read More about The Examiner and the Evangelist: Authorities of Music and Empire, c.1894.

A Cross-Sectional Study of Reminiscence Bumps for Music-Related Memories in Adulthood (2020)
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Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Tillmann, B., Perrin, F., & Heine, L. (2020). A Cross-Sectional Study of Reminiscence Bumps for Music-Related Memories in Adulthood. Music & Science, 3, https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204320965058

Music is often intimately linked to identity, as evidenced by the high value many people place on musical activities and the way in which music can become seemingly effortlessly coupled to important memories from throughout one’s lifespan. Previous r... Read More about A Cross-Sectional Study of Reminiscence Bumps for Music-Related Memories in Adulthood.

Spanish adaptation of a film music stimulus set (FMSS): Cultural and gender differences in the perception of emotions prompted by music excerpts (2020)
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Fuentes-Sánchez, N., Pastor, R., Eerola, T., & Pastor, M. (2021). Spanish adaptation of a film music stimulus set (FMSS): Cultural and gender differences in the perception of emotions prompted by music excerpts. Psychology of Music, 49(5), 1242-1260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735620958464

The literature review reveals different conceptual and methodological challenges in the field of music and emotion, such as the lack of agreement in terms of standardized datasets, and the need for replication of prior findings. Our study aimed at va... Read More about Spanish adaptation of a film music stimulus set (FMSS): Cultural and gender differences in the perception of emotions prompted by music excerpts.

Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account (2020)
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Curwen, C. (2022). Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account. Musicae Scientiae, 26(2), 388-407. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864920956295

This article presents a sensorimotor account of music-colour synaesthesia, proposing a radically different perspective than is commonly provided. Recent empirical and theoretical work in music cognition moves away from cognitivist accounts, rejects r... Read More about Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account.

Memories of The Last Hwaraengi, Kim Junghee (2020)
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Mills, S. (2020). Memories of The Last Hwaraengi, Kim Junghee. Han'gug eum'ag yeon'gu, 67, 279-320. https://doi.org/10.35983/sikm.2020.67.279

Kim Junghee, who passed away in sad circumstances in December 2019, was a leading light in the East Coast shaman ritual tradition－an extraordinarily skilled and dedicated man who played a vital role in leading his tradition's transition from the old... Read More about Memories of The Last Hwaraengi, Kim Junghee.

Music may reduce loneliness and act as social surrogate for a friend: Evidence from an experimental listening study (2020)
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Schäfer, K., Saarikallio, S., & Eerola, T. (2020). Music may reduce loneliness and act as social surrogate for a friend: Evidence from an experimental listening study. Music & Science, 3, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204320935709

After losing a close other, individuals usually confide in an empathic friend to receive comfort and they seem to have a heightened desire for mood-congruent, consoling music. Hence, it has been proposed that affect-congruent music acts as a social s... Read More about Music may reduce loneliness and act as social surrogate for a friend: Evidence from an experimental listening study.

Involuntary musical imagery as a component of ordinary music cognition: A review of empirical evidence (2020)
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Liikkanen, L., & Jakubowski, K. (2020). Involuntary musical imagery as a component of ordinary music cognition: A review of empirical evidence. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 27(6), 1195-1217. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01750-7

Involuntary musical imagery (INMI) refers to a conscious mental experience of music that occurs without deliberate efforts to initiate or sustain it. This experience often consists of the repetition of a short fragment of a melody, colloquially calle... Read More about Involuntary musical imagery as a component of ordinary music cognition: A review of empirical evidence.

"Release Hitting": An Analytical Study Commemorating the Artistry of the South Korean Shaman Musician Kim Yongt'aek (2020)
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Mills, S. (2020). "Release Hitting": An Analytical Study Commemorating the Artistry of the South Korean Shaman Musician Kim Yongt'aek. Analytical approaches to world music, 8(1), 1-47

Within the world of South Korean traditional music, the percussion-based ritual music performed by hereditary shaman troupes in the East Coast region is justly famed for the diversity and complexity of its rhythmic structures and the virtuosic patter... Read More about "Release Hitting": An Analytical Study Commemorating the Artistry of the South Korean Shaman Musician Kim Yongt'aek.

Cultural familiarity and musical expertise impact the pleasantness of consonance/dissonance but not its perceived tension (2020)
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Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2020). Cultural familiarity and musical expertise impact the pleasantness of consonance/dissonance but not its perceived tension. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 8693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65615-8

The contrast between consonance and dissonance is vital in making music emotionally meaningful. Consonance typically denotes perceived agreeableness and stability, while dissonance disagreeableness and a need of resolution. This study addresses the p... Read More about Cultural familiarity and musical expertise impact the pleasantness of consonance/dissonance but not its perceived tension.

Chinese Street Pop and Performing with the Urban Environment (2020)
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Horlor, S. (2020). Chinese Street Pop and Performing with the Urban Environment. Etnografie Sonore/ Sound Ethnographies, 2(1), 39-68

The urban environment is more than simply a setting that contains the regular pop shows found in various public spots in the city of Wuhan in China. Instead, the performances are formed from the sounds and other material conditions of their situation... Read More about Chinese Street Pop and Performing with the Urban Environment.